1997 Power Players Week game 3.From DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.
Al Franken — an author and comedian fromLateline
Pat Schroeder — a former congresswoman from the Association of American Publishers
Jack Ford — a trial attorney and Emmy Award-winning journalist from theTodayshow
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack | $1,100 | $1,900 | $1,300 |
$0
3rd place: $10,000 for the Alzheimer's Association |
$1,300
7 R, 2 W |
| Pat | $500 | $700 | $2,100 |
$100
Winner: $15,000 for Publishers' Literacy |
$2,100
4 R, 1 W |
| Al | $1,800 | $3,900 | $7,900 |
$0
2nd place: $10,000 for the Congressional Hunger Center |
$5,400
19 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W |
| U.S. GOVERNMENT | SUNDAY MORNING TV | POLITICAL QUOTES | BULL |
|
$100
[1]
An 1873 law requires that this Latin motto appear on one side of every U.S. coin
"E Pluribus Unum"
Jack
|
$100
[5]
In April 1994 this Charles replaced Charles Kuralt on CBS News Sunday Morning
Charles Osgood
Al
|
$100
[12]
"Tom Sawyer" author who said, "There is no distincly Native American criminal class, except Congress"
Mark Twain
Al
|
$100
[11]
This small stream, 30 miles from where we now stand, was the site of 2 Civil War battles
Bull Run
Al
|
|
$200
[2]
This agency, the GAO, advises Congress on the use of public funds
General Accounting Office
Jack
|
$200
[6]
The Crystal Cathedral is the setting of this reverend's "Hour of Power"
Robert Schuller
Al
|
$200
[13]
Louisiana "Kingfish" who reportedly said, "The time has come for all good men to rise above principle"
Huey Long
Al
|
$200
[17]
Garry Trudeau based this comic strip on "Bull Tales", a strip he created while attending Yale
Doonesbury
Pat
|
|
$300
[3]
An amendment becomes part of the Constitution after this many states have ratified it
3/4
Jack
|
$300
[7]
His name no longer appears in the title of ABC's "This Week"
David Brinkley
Al
|
$400
[15]
Rope-spinning humorist who said, "I am not a member of any organized party; I am a Democrat"
Will Rogers
Jack
|
$300
[18]
In about 1867 he was made principal chief of several Sioux tribes
Sitting Bull
Al
|
|
$400
[4]
This Treasury Department agency, the ATF, investigates hitmen & mad bombers
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Al
|
$400
[8]
This show is based in Washington, D.C where host Tim Russert is NBC's bureau chief
Meet the Press
Al
|
$500
[16]
He said, "I never give them hell; I just give them the truth and they think it is hell"
Harry Truman
Al
|
$400
[19]
This 1980 Robert De Niro film is in black & white except for the credits & home movies of Jake La Motta
Raging Bull
Jack
|
|
$500
[10]
Most presidential libraries are controlled by this agency which maintains our government records
The National Archives
Pat
|
$500
[9]
Now appearing together on CNN, these 2 journalists first teamed up for a newspaper column in 1963
Rowland Evans & Robert Novak
Jack
|
DD
$1,800
[14]
Famous politician heardhereon Sept. 23, 1952:"The kids, like all kids, love the dog and I just want to say this right now that regardless of what they say about it, we're going to keep him..."
Richard Nixon
Al
|
$500
[20]
The crowd noises from this first Herb Alpert hit were dubbed from a bullring in Tijuana
"The Lonely Bull"
Al
|
| MRS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON | INACTION MOVIES | SIMPLE SCIENCE | CONGRESSIONAL CROSSWORD CLUES "C" | DANS, DANIELS & BOBS |
|
$200
[5]
In 1950 Sen. Margaret Chase Smith condemned this man for turning the Senate into a "forum for hate"
Joseph McCarthy
Al
|
$200
[3]
Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald & schoolmates talk through day-long detention in this film
The Breakfast Club
Jack
|
$200
[12]
1/60 of a minute, until 1960 it was defined as 1/86,400th of a mean solar day
Second
Al
|
$200
[8]
Senate & House hill(7)
Capitol
Jack
Al
|
$400
[16]
Bob Dole was wounded in the right shoulder in WWII & this Hawaiian senator lost his right arm
Daniel Inouye
Al
|
|
$400
[6]
In 1989 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of this
Freedom
Pat
|
$400
[4]
This 1959 film based on a journal written during WWII is set largely in an attic
The Diary of Anne Frank
Al
|
$400
[13]
Plant from which Eli Whitney's gin removed seeds
Cotton
Al
|
$400
[9]
Pre-U.S. Congress, or a style of Lincoln(11)
Continental
|
DD
$2,000
[17]
His peak as an orator came in an 1830 reply to a speech by Bob Hayne, a South Carolina senator
Daniel Webster
Al
|
|
$600
[2]
The first woman elected to both houses, she represented this state for 32 years
Maine
Jack
Al
|
— |
$600
[14]
This oxygen producing process in plants takes place only during daylight
Photosynthesis
|
$600
[10]
House equivalent of Senate secretary(5)
Clerk
|
— |
|
$800
[7]
In 1961 this world leader called pro-nuclear Margaret "The devil in the disguise of a woman"
Nikita Khrushchev
|
— |
$800
[15]
The word vaccination comes from "vacca", meaning this animal whose pox germs were used
cow
Pat
|
$800
[11]
House Democratic chat group(6)
Caucus
Al
|
— |
|
$1,000
[1]
Jiminy Cricket! Her 1972 book was "Declaration of" this
Conscience
|
— | — |
$1,000
[18]
Filibuster buster(7)
cloture
Pat
|
— |
In 1832 when the House tried Sam Houston for contempt, he was defended by this lawyer & lyricist
Francis Scott Key